The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-09-01
What to do Until the Doctor Comes
BY BELLE V. CHISHOLM.

With your permission, would ike ,
to relate few incidents that | have !,
gathered by the way, showing the me-
cessity of preparing children to act, in !
stead of scream, in cases of pressing .
emergencies
Many mothers themselves are woe
| fully ignorant Of what to do until the
doctor comes in cases that require in
slant attention, and it is for their
sakes, especially, that | ask brief
space in your columns
few years ago, in a school ! attend
ed, young girl tainted, and fell to
the floor. In moment the teacher
had raised her to a sitting posture,
and we frightened children crowded
around her wringing out hands and
crying. In the midst OF the confus-
ion, a young miss of dozen years,
came to the rescue by stretching the
unconscious girl fiat upon her back
In quiet, firm voice she said MARY
has only tainted, and you must stand
back and give her air" Instantly the
circle that had formed around her
widened, the windows were thrown
open, and our young commander. IN
quick, calm manner, proceeded to
remove all the compression about the
chest of her patient. Taking a small
bottle of ammonia, which the teacher
CHANGED to have in her possession, she
applied it to the nostrils of the pros
trate girl, and soon we had the salts
faction OF knowing that Mary was
quite herself again. +.t
"Where did you learn how to act so
calmly and promptly, Sarah?" inquir'
ed the teacher, when we were ready
to resume our studies again.
"When a mere child, | was taught q
lesson that / have never forgotten,
. was her reply. "My little brother fel
a from the landing at the top. of thu
, stairs to the hall below, striking hi
: head upon the banistersin the descent
Thinking him dead the nurse PICKED
8 him up and began tossing him up ant
q down. Mother took him from he
8 arms, and laid him flat upon the floor
l. setting the door wide open to Civ
It him needed air. Soon he began t
3. breathe regularly, and then mothe
10 told as that when people tainted G
~ were knocked senseless by blows abou
=. the head, they should be laid upo
: their backs, with their heads lit
=: lower than their bodies" AS faintin
- is caused by the failure of the heart
u supply the brain with blood, no OF
e. need to be at loss to understand ii
e' advantage gained by the PROSTATE p
el' sition, yet, in spite OF all that HI
I'd been said and written upon the su
70. ject, people still continue to pile p
It lows under the heads of tleir faintiI
If friends, while the child who has I
20 ceived blow upon the head is 10
49, ed about roughly, or carried in an u
=: right posture, as if blood could ri
VI uphill as easily as down.
el- One of the coolest days last whit
80 a patient in the dental chair failed
ITO rally from the depressing effects
sh- chloroiorm, and the physician W
md was hastily summoned, with the he
ce. OF an assistant, dragged him to t
is door, and while holding him up
ms his feet, dashed snow upon his ia
,ro until the weakened action of the he
"a gave out, and the patient lay ba
-. limp and apparently lifeless in tn
'0' hands.
'ol' "Stand him on his head. That
So what father does when they do
Gus come round right, said young
"A; who had been attracted to the door
w. the unusual stir. So the youth ,
NV turned upside down, until he begar
ii0l show signs of returning animati
are By that time, the boys father, v
real was one of the leading physicians
the place, arrived, and his sons tim
nds direction was followed by proper m
of ical treatment Just here, for
,ove sake of those who may be compel
hv to pass through seiges caused by
dangerous drug, / would like to a
e. 90. that after eleysting the feet, nit
OF amyl should be applied caution
st. to the nostrils of the patient
Not many years ago party
the school boys we're skating on. the n
land. kigum river. The ice was suppC
every to be perfectly safe, until it reve'
ice. its treachery, by suddenly gil
dia- away beneath the feet of one OF
/ girl lads. Fortunately he grasped
lee rough edge of the frozen structur
d my time to prevent his being drawn
+ her the cold, swift current beneath.
T. she hops became panic-stricken and
acture hither and thither without attemp
ink to to rescue their companion. Only
now" of the twenty had presence of n
to act, the rest being too badly
e first morallzed even to assist him in d
II the ging the hoop-poles he had luckily
covered, down the hill. However